GROWING up Grucci has its perks and perils, even after the Grucci in question is all grown up. Take 56-year-old Felix J. Grucci Jr., the involuntarily retired Republican politician who served one term in Congress before being ousted in 2002 by Tim...

June 30, 2006, Friday

IMBUED with courage of a bureaucratic sort, the deputy mayor determined that now was the time. The time, 15 months after 343 firefighters died in the World Trade Center disaster, to take on the insular firehouse culture that has vexed New York Cit...

December 15, 2002, Sunday

An article last Sunday about the election in the First Congressional District, on the East End, reported that Timothy Bishop was leading the incumbent, Felix J. Grucci Jr., by 2,400 votes pending a canvass of the returns, and characterized Mr. Bis...

November 24, 2002, Sunday

THE apparent upset election of Timothy Bishop of Southampton over Felix J. Grucci Jr. of East Patchogue, the Republican incumbent in the First Congressional District, shifts its political center of gravity toward its eastern, Hamptons end, even th...

Abandoning hope that a recount would reverse his apparent defeat, United States Representative Felix J. Grucci Jr. conceded victory today to his Democratic challenger, Timothy H. Bishop. Mr. Bishop, 52, a political novice who resigned as provos...

A recanvassing of voting machines on eastern Long Island has increased the apparent margin of victory for Timothy H. Bishop, a Democrat who since Election Day has held a narrow lead in unofficial returns over Felix J. Grucci Jr., the Republican co...

WHILE Republicans won resounding victories across New York State and in the rest of the country in last week's elections, Democrats on Long Island proved to be the exception to the national trend in a few particularly hard-fought races. The mar...

In a bleak election for the nation's Democrats, one ray of hope was the Congressional campaign of Timothy H. Bishop, a political neophyte from Southampton who was holding a 2,421-vote lead today over Representative Felix J. Grucci Jr. in unofficia...

Representative Felix R. Grucci Jr. was deadlocked last night with Timothy H. Bishop, a college provost, in the race for the House of Representatives from eastern Long Island. The race may turn on the tally of absentee votes, but with Mr. Bisho...